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When the Revell Dodge Charger SRT8 kit arrived to the model-shops, I had to buy one. However, opening the box, these big wheels and the Lambo-style doors didn't hit my taste very much, I was more looking for a style similar to the former musclecars.
 

Some time later I decided to build this model as a two door car, like most of those older famous muscle cars.
The first step was to glue the front-doors to the body and to cut the B-pillars away. Next I closed the panel-lines of the rear and of the front doors along the roof. When these gaps were filled with putty and sanded roughly smooth, I cut a piece of sheet with a light curve, the future shape of the new rear panel line of the front doors. This was the “master”, I held it tight to the body and scratched along this sheet so that left and right side were equal.
 

Before

After

Looking at the proportions, the C-pillar should be taller. I glued some sheet to both C-pillars, so that they come down in a narrower curve.
 

After some puttying and sanding, the body was primered to see further imperfections.
 

When these imperfections were fixed, I made a first mock up with resin wheels..

Although the wheels were rather big, the wheel-wells appeared still too huge. So the rear ends of the wheel-wells were filled with a little piece of sheet, to reduce the radius..
 

After I got the body would look good, some changes on the interior were necessary. The inner door-panels had to be converted from a 4-door car to a coupe.

With all those trim on the door panels it seemed easier to build them new from sheet and putty.
 

With the body and door-panels complete, I sent these parts Scaleproduction. They made a resin copy, so I can be sure, that the different materials won't crack in the course of time.

When I got the resin parts, the body was primed and painted in green, automotive lacquer straight out of the can.
 

While the colour was drying and I was searching for the black decals, I build the interior. Nothing special here, the new resin door-panels and seats from a Dodge Viper Coupe were the only parts that were changed. Some panels got the same green colour as the body and seatbelts were added. Flocking looks like carpet and the grey “leather” of the seats was high-lightened with some chalk.
 

I got some decals from a German modelling friend, who ordered them from the US and had no more use for them. They were and should remain flat, so I rubbed the body out and polished the green first. Next the decals were fixed to the body and I must admit, they were very worse. Having contact to the body it was almost impossible to move them into their final position without tearing them. With lots of patience I succeeded to fix them.
 

While the decals dried, the wheels were airbrushed in a colour mixed of black and a little silver.
At the end there were the final tasks to do: fixing front and rear-lights, the windows (the side windows behind the doors were cut to correct form). Then body, interior tub and chassis were glued together the model.
 

The wheels / axles were positioned in the wheel-wells as deep as possible, to bring the Dodge to the ground. The last things I added were the exhaust, made from two aluminium tubes, polished to shine.

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